80: Chapter 80 Lin Hu

Seeing him like this, Lin Fan was puzzled. What on earth could have happened to make him beg for help so desperately?

"What happened?"

Lin Fan deliberately made his voice raspy.

Hearing Mr. Chen speak, a glimmer of hope instantly ignited in Lin Hu's eyes.

As long as the other party was willing to listen, there was still a chance.

Seeing this, the other guards wisely refrained from stepping in, watching from afar with troubled expressions.

Lin Hu immediately began to explain the situation.

It turned out that his daughter had been kidnapped.

It had been two days, but there was no news from the kidnappers, not even a ransom demand.

As he spoke, he pulled out a small photo and handed it to Lin Fan.

Lin Fan looked at it.

The photo showed an eight or nine-year-old girl with short hair and large, round, yellow eyes.

The girl was smiling brightly, showing all her teeth.

Her two front teeth were missing, making her look exceptionally cute.

"Who would lay a hand on such a cute child?"

Lin Fan thought to himself, then withdrew his gaze and looked at Lin Hu.

"Has the Alliance not stepped in to handle it?" he asked.

As a guard of the Alliance, if his family met with trouble, the Alliance should have done everything in its power to help.

At the mention of the Alliance, Lin Hu's body trembled, and his expression instantly dimmed.

He lowered his head powerlessly and explained that the Alliance had been searching for the kidnappers, but there had been no progress at all.

In fact, over the past half month, the Alliance had received more than a dozen reports of missing children.

The victims were all between the ages of six and seventeen.

The kidnappers had left no traces, and the clues the Alliance possessed were pitifully scarce.

Two days ago, he went to school to pick up his daughter as usual, only to be told that an Alliance guard had already picked her up on his behalf.

But he had never asked anyone to pick her up.

When he asked the teacher about the person's appearance, the teacher strangely couldn't recall what the person looked like.

Lin Hu realized instantly that his daughter had been kidnapped.

When people related to the other missing children had been questioned, they had also said they couldn't remember what the kidnappers looked like!

After listening to Lin Hu's story, Lin Fan's expression became grave.

These kidnapping cases had already been happening before he transmigrated.

Yet he knew nothing about them; he figured the original host must not have come into contact with any relevant information.

Just as he was pondering, Lin Hu's voice sounded again.

"I... I suspect this is the work of the Dark Alliance. They are the ones orchestrating all of this behind the scenes!"

Lin Hu clenched his fists, gritting his teeth, his tone full of anger.

"Lin Hu, don't talk nonsense. It might just be local terrorists causing trouble."

"That's right, Lin Hu, you can't just mention the Dark Alliance like that."

The guards in the distance quickly tried to dissuade him, but Lin Hu roared with red eyes:

"Then tell me, besides them, who else would kidnap so many children without asking for a ransom? They... they took my daughter, and I don't even know if she is dead or alive!"

Lin Hu's voice choked up, and by the end, it had turned into suppressed sobbing.

The guards on duty looked conflicted, not knowing how to comfort him.

Lin Fan also looked at Lin Hu, speechless for a moment.

Looking at the weeping father before him, after a moment, he spoke:

"Fine, I will help you find your daughter, and the other missing children as well."

Lin Hu and the guards were all stunned, and then their faces erupted with pleasant surprise.

They had never expected that Mr. Chen would actually agree to intervene.

You must know, Mr. Chen had a very high reputation within the Alliance; even the two elders treated him with great respect.

If he was willing to intervene, perhaps there was truly hope.

Moreover, Mr. Chen had only recently appeared, so it was very likely he hadn't known about the kidnapping cases before, which was why he hadn't taken action.

"Thank you, thank you so much, Mr. Chen! I really don't know how to repay you!"

Lin Hu knelt on the ground, thanking him repeatedly with tears streaming down his face.

Lin Fan's heart stirred slightly; this was fatherly love.

He didn't say anything more and turned to leave, leaving Lin Hu and the guards behind.

He needed to go to the Alliance Building first to sell the monster corpses and magic cores he was carrying.

As for helping to find the missing children, although he had promised Lin Hu, he had no leads for the time being.

He only agreed because he saw Lin Hu's desperate desire to save his daughter and couldn't bear to refuse; he only hoped the children were all still safe.

Otherwise, he would only feel full of guilt when facing Lin Hu in the future.

On the way to the Alliance Building in the commercial district, Lin Fan kept thinking about how to find the kidnappers.

Perhaps he could ask the Alliance first to see how many clues they currently had?

He believed that given his position as a helper, they shouldn't withhold information.

In addition, the Dark Alliance mentioned by Lin Hu also made him very concerned.

What exactly was the Dark Alliance?

Lin Fan knew nothing about it, and there was no relevant information in the original host's memories.

Judging from the guards' reactions, the Dark Alliance was clearly an existence that ordinary people shouldn't know about.

Only those in power and official personnel knew the inside story.

That was why he didn't press for details on the spot, so as not to expose his ignorance.

After all, everyone now regarded him as a top-tier powerhouse.

If he didn't know something that even ordinary guards knew, it would be too strange.

Lin Fan decided that he must investigate the Dark Alliance on his own in the future.

Not long after, he arrived at the Alliance Building and pushed the door open to enter.

As usual, the lobby was bustling with people, with mages and ordinary people mixed together.

As soon as Lin Fan entered, countless gazes fell upon him, and the people around began to whisper.

He pretended not to hear.

But now that he was at the Fourth Rank, his hearing was far superior to ordinary people's, and every word was clearly audible.

Because of Fang Bin's appearance last time, no one dared to come forward to recruit him into an adventure party anymore.

Yet he could still hear quite a few people discussing wanting to invite him to carry out missions together.

Lin Fan stood where he was and did not walk towards the reception desk.

Because he noticed that a receptionist picked up the phone the moment they saw him.

Sure enough, before those who intended to invite him could act, Fang Bin hurried over.

"Mr. Chen, you've come!"

Fang Bin's voice echoed through the first floor of the building.

He walked out of the elevator, his tone filled with pleasant surprise and respect.

Lin Fan clearly heard a few dissatisfied curses coming from somewhere.

It was those people who wanted to invite him on missions, cursing Fang Bin in secret.

He ignored them and looked at the smiling Fang Bin walking towards him, feeling secretly strange.

With the child disappearance cases having absolutely no leads, how could this person still be so relaxed?

"If his own family member were in trouble, he would probably be as devastated as Lin Hu," Lin Fan thought to himself.

After all, Lin Hu had been perfectly normal before, only becoming distraught after his daughter was kidnapped.

"You've finally come. It's been quite a few days since we last saw you; we thought you had already left Baiyun City."

Fang Bin walked up to Lin Fan, smiling respectfully.

He didn't reach out to shake hands, but instead turned to the side and made a gesture of invitation, and they walked towards the elevator together.

Lin Fan stepped forward, casually saying he had been busy with things.

"Naturally, naturally. With Mr. Chen's strength, besides hunting monsters, there must naturally be other important matters."